Apparatus for making corrugated metal sheets or plates.



A10. 827,419. PATENTED JULY 31, 1906. j w.- e. GAUSER. A v

APPARATUS FOR. MAKING CORRUGATED METALSHEBTS 0R PLATES.-

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APPARATUS FOR MAKING CORRUGATED METAL SHEETS 0R PLATES. rrmoumn nnnzo ohm. e, 1005.

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@w li v I PATENTED J LY a1, 1906.

, W. G. cAUsER. APPARATUS FOR MAKING CORRUGATED METALSHEETS 0R PLATES.

APPLIOATION FILED O0T.6, 1906.

I 3 SHEETS- SHEET 8.

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Referring side framesor housings braced andstayed at i 55 @and-when necessary withthe longitudinal for Making Corrugated Metal. Sheets or Ila-allwleono it may concern:

UNITED 'jsTATEs PA EN OFFICE...

{WILLIAM GEORGE 'CAUSER, or BIR INGHAM, ENGLAND. aem nmus Foe MAKING :C'QR'RUGATED 'MEvAL smears on arms.

"specification bf Iietters Patent.

.m-aieamy v l Application filed 0ct'ober 6,;l905. S'ei'ialll'o. 231,812.

Plates, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which-it appertains tomake and use the same.

chinery for making corrugated metal plates 1 orshfeets; and the object of the invention is to provide an improved a machine or apparatus for the purpose specifiedwhich is simple in construction and operation and by means of. which corrugated metal plates or sheets of various I forms or configuration in, cross sec tion may be made, a further object being to provide av continuous process of corrugation and automatic delivery of the sheet or plate aftercorrugation without undue friction or tendency to rupture the material under oppassing the plates or sheets between revolv ing dies, parts of which are flexibly connected 'eration, which objects are accomplished by andz'shaped to suit the particular form of cor? rugation or'configuration desired.

' The invention is fully disclosed in the'fol-f lowingspecification, of which the accompany ing drawingsform a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitablereference characters in "each ofthe views, and in which- Figure 1 is a .sid

1 1 the improved machine or apparatus which I detail shown inlFig. 4;YFig. 6-a partial trans- ,employ; Fig. 2, a front view thereof; Fig. 3, a

plan view thereof; Fig. 4 a plan viewof -a detailpf the machine gr Fig.5 an end view. of the verse section of one of the elements of the con- 'structionshown in Fig. Fig 7 an end view f of that part of the device shown in Fig. 6; and

'45 a I front elevations of a bearmg which I-employ ,to .avoid undue-spring action of the impressbar and carrying-shaft when the corrugations Figs. 8' and 9 show, respectively, side and to be produced in the sheets orplates are comparatively of small pitchin. Proportion to Figs. 1, 2, and 3, a a are the suitable intervals, by the distance pieces .61)

, v ;employed. e elevation of one form of r v r beams'c c. The sideframe's or housings are Be it known that 1, WILLIAM GEQRGECAU- I h 1 snn, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Birmingham, in the county of "Warwicky Fngland, have invented certain new. and. useful Improvements in Apparatus furnishedwith-bea rings for the longitudinal shaft (1, carrying the balance-wheel e and the driving or band wheels'jf and 9 The shaft d may also be adapted to receive motionfrom any other system of driving pr motive power.

4 v I t ion Z and between-the side frames hasits. d1 This invention relates to apparatus or maameter suitably enlarged by the drum or j 3'? i 9', and .j' are shafts similartoj,

Ij ournaled in bearings 1c, k ,,k lcf, and 70 also carried the side fr-arnesor housings a a and having their axesparallel to eaohpther and v to that, of the shaft 3 The shaft 3'" carries, a

pinion -Z, similar to Z, -I neshing into .alike.

pinion Z on the shaft ,andals int'o the pinion Z on the shaft The, shafts 3 and 9' are each enlarged or fitted with ruins m m m mtm between the, side'fr'arnes or' housings a a, similar tovthe shaft -j-. These enlargements :or drums-m m m m 'rn rrn are suitably spaced and grooved at their peripheries with grooves, "Q running parallel to their axes to receive and carry the bars a e which, inyconjun'ction with the end links. q

(connecting the said bars); and the, carrying shafts j withzthe drum enlargementhm,. con stitute the flexible impress or corrugating dies The construction of one formofirnpress .or

corrugating-die for use in almachinein a'c cordance with myinvention is illustrated by Figs. 4-and-5,and-67. v, I e ,t

In Figs. 4 and 5, n n n are aseries of-stra ghft metallic. bars of cylindricalorother section convenientfor the corrugationsthe alre intended to produce.v The ends of eac bar are 7 reduced in diameter, and on the reduced portion links p g are jointedly fitted,flexibly connecting eachbar to; its adjacent bars, -so

that when'linked together the axes of all the bars so-connected are parallel to each other, and the bars and links combined form anendless chain or band. Figs. 6 and 7 illustrate by section and end view a pin connection for bars and links which may be employed i nlieu of the arrangement shown in Figs. 4 -and5;

The endless chain of bars flndiiflks is -1-. so

mounted in the machine as to embrace the" I drums .of the adjacent shafts in a tier, and the bars taking into the grooves on the peripheries of the drums are carried andcontrolled by the same.

In the machine illustrated by Figs. 1, 2, and 3 the bars n of the lower impress-die are carried and controlled by the drums m and m mounted, respectively, on the shafts and 3' The bars n of the middle impress-die are carried and controlled by the drums m and m mounted, respectively, on the shafts j and 7' The bars n of the upper impress-dle are carried on and controlled by the drums 1 m and m mounted, respectively, on the shafts j and 3' Two impress-dies are in relative-working positlon for forming a corrugatlon when a bar of the one meshes evenly into the hollow formed by two contiguous bars of the adjacent die with a clearance-space between the bars equal to the thickness of the material to be corru ated.

The re ative direction of movement of ad- I jacent dies when in action is indicated by the arrows in Fig. 1. A feed-table r is located at the feed or entry side of each pair of impressdies, which is capable of a reciprocating motion, imparted through the eccentrics t t and the jointedly-connected rods a u. Suitable stops on the table provide for the correct adjustment of the sheet to be corrugated, which is also steadied duringits passage between the corrugating-dies by the keep-bar '0.

I, art' to which it appertains.

w w are receiving-tables.

I From the foregoing description the construction and operation of my invention will be"readily understood by those skilled in the The sheet or plate to be operated upon having been placed on one of the tables 1" is passed under the keep-bar v and adjusted to the stops on the table and by the reciprocating movement of same fed forward until it engages with the inwardly-revolving dies and is by them carried forward and impressedor corrugated as they come into juxtaposition in course of travel withtheir respective carrying-shafts or drums.

Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a machine for corrugating sheet metal, the combination of continuously-rotatable drums, one of said drums being provided with longitudinal ribs orbars and corresponding grooves, a rotatable endless flexible die mounted on and movable on said drums and composed of transverse members loosely connected and which operate in connection with said ribs or bars and with said grooves, and a bearing block or drum mounted over said die and said drum andv operating in connection with said die and rovided with longitudinally-arranged ribs orgmrs and corresponding grooves, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a machine for corrugating sheet metal, the combination of continuously-rotatable drums, one of said drums being grooved londitudinally of its face to form corresponding bars or ribs and a corrugating flexible endless die mounted on said drums and comprisin a series of transverse parallel bars flexib y connected, the grooves in said drum being spaced so as to receive the bars of the endless flexible die, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a machine for corrugating sheet metal, the combination of continuously-rotatable drums, one of said drums being grooved longitudinally of its face to form corresponding bars or ribs ,'a corrugating flexible endless die mounted on said drums and comprising a series of transverse parallel bars flexibly connected, the grooves in said drum being spaced so as to receive the bars of the endless flexible die, and a rotatable bearin block or drum mounted over said die and over said grooved drum, said bearing block or drum being grooved longitudinally to form corresponding ribs which operate in connection with the bars of said die, substantially as shown and described.

4. In a machine for corrugatin sheet metal, an endless die composed of a p urality of parallel transversely-arranged bars or 'tubes linked together, continuously-rotatable drums on which said die is mounted, one or said drums being provided with a plurality of longitudinally-arranged grooves forming crorespondin ribs or bars spaced to correspond with t e spaces between the bars or tubes of the die, a rotatable bearing block or drum mounted over the die and over the grooved drum and operating in connection with the die and provided with longitudinal rooves and corresponding ribs or bars, means for rotating said first-named drums and said bearing-block or drum in unison so as to cause the endless die to travel around said firstnamed drums in juxtaposition with the ribs or bars on the face of the bearing-block or drum and coacting with the said ribs or bars so that the bars or tubes of the endless die mesh with the ribs or bars of the grooved drum, snbstantially as shown and described.

5. A machine for corrugating metal sheets, comprising a frame, two endless dies of metallic bars or tubes linked together, each die embracing two rotatable shafts provided with drums one of which is transversely grooved in the face thereof to receive and carry the bars ortubes of the endless die, the axes of both drums being parallel one to another and in the same plane, a second coacting arrangement of shafts, drums and endless die composed of bars or tubes, the axes of the drums of the secondset being in a plane parallel to those of the first-named set and directly over them and at a distance therefrom convenient for the intermeshing of the bars or tubes of the separate sets of dies with a clearancespace between equal to the thickness of'the sheet of metal to be corrugated, means for adjusting and regulating the depth of the in,- termesh of the bars or tubes of the separate sets of dies, gearing transmitting'motion to all of said shafts so that they rotate in unison thus causing the bars or tubes of the endless,

dies carried by the separate sets of drumsto travel forwardly in juxtaposition one with the other sothat the bars of one set mesh with the bars of the other set, a table upon which the sheet to be corrugated is placed," I

'21st day of September, 1905.

WILLIAM GEORGE OAUSER.

Witnesses:

DANIEL E. OAUsER, EDWARD FREDERICK EVANS. 

